Cee’s Compose Yourself Challenge -Week#2

I had a fun day on Sunday taking some new photos for Cee’s photo challenges. Two of these pictures were taken at the Hobart Botanical Gardens. They were holding a spring festival and amongst the entertainment was an old fashioned Punch and Judy Show.

I also enjoyed photographing the spring flowers as I don’t often get a chance to do flower close-ups. I’ll just have to plant lots of flowers in our new garden.

The third photo is an older one but was taken just down the road from the Botanical Gardens. It is a panel from the gate of the old Beaumaris Zoo which has been gone for many years. Only the gate remains. I have always found the faces of the animals on the panels very melancholy and wonder if the artist designed them that way on purpose. I chose the Thylacine (Tasmanian Tiger) as my subject because the last known one was a resident at the zoo until it died. I’ve seen film of the poor thing in its cage and it makes me cry every time I watch it.

What You Think

Naomi

I came to Australia with my mother and sister Vanda in 1966 from the UK aboard the Sitmar liner Castel Felice. We settled in South Australia I lived in the western suburbs of Adelaide for most of my life. I became very interested in retro items in my twenties. It was always a dream of mine to have an old house and fill it with retro items. I have done it twice now. My main interest is collecting old things. They do not have to be valuable, only interesting. There is something reassuring about old retro items. I have all sorts of things including doll related items. My other interests are my beautiful pets, art and going for drives to who knows where. I also enjoy board games or doing a scenic jig saw puzzle on a wintry afternoon by the fire. My goal is to travel a bit more as there are some places I would love to see

Vanda

Born in England in 1957 my family came to Australia in 1966. I grew up in Adelaide, South Australia, where I met and married my husband David. We came together over a mutual love of trains. Both of us worked for the railways for many years, his job was with Australian National Railways, while I spent 12 years working for the STA, later TransAdelaide the Adelaide city transit system. After leaving that job I worked in hospitality until 2008.
We moved to Tasmania in 2002 to live in the beautiful Huon Valley. David passed away in 2015 and I'm here on my own now but I have Cindy the dog and Polly the cat to keep me company.
I currently co-write two Wordpress blogswith my sister Naomi. Our doll blog "Dolls, Dolls, Dolls", and a "Our Other Blog" which is about everything else but with a focus on photographs and places in Tasmania.